Building in Public Articles
Curated PodGlue insights and playbooks focused on building in public.
Help That Knows the Product
Help That Knows the Product
My own Help button was confidently lying to me. The fix wasn't a smarter AI. It was handing the AI the docs that were sitting on the shelf behind it.
Read articleWhere Did Your Customer Feedback Actually Go?
Where Did Your Customer Feedback Actually Go?
I clicked Submit on my own product's Feedback button and watched the issue land in the wrong place. Six weeks of customer feedback had been quietly going to a team that wasn't watching.
Read articleI'd Rather Pay You 30% Than Spend That on Ads
I'd Rather Pay You 30% Than Spend That on Ads
Most podcast tools either don't have an affiliate program or pay you 10% once. PodGlue pays 30% recurring on every Amplify subscriber you refer, for as long as they stay. There's a reason for that.
Read articleI Wanted to Invite 50 People to a Call
I Wanted to Invite 50 People to a Call
What started as a weekly beta call invite turned into rebuilding how PodGlue tracks people. The smallest tasks reveal the most about what you actually need.
Read articleFrom 642 Megabytes to Nine
From 642 Megabytes to Nine
Our admin app deploy was uploading 642MB. The container only needed 9MB. The fix was one config file — and a question I'd been avoiding.
Read articleThe Deploy That Never Deployed
The Deploy That Never Deployed
Our CI had been silently rejecting every edge function deploy for months. I only noticed because something I shipped didn't appear.
Read articleThe Email System I Almost Built Twice
The Email System I Almost Built Twice
I was three commits into a custom email broadcast tool when I remembered I was already paying for one that did it better. The lesson wasn't about email.
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